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[Colin Law]

Please reply to the list rather than just myself.
See comments below.

On 17 May 2016 at 08:49, Ian A Taylor <iat at st-andrews.ac.uk> wrote:
> Colin
>
> Many thanks for reply
>
> I run memtest overnight (14 hours worth)
> No errors reported
>
> I did you  /forcefsck and machine did check disk on reboot from memtest
>
> It also booted into "normal" mode (ie network up and graphic login screen
> visible)

Are you saying it is ok now?

>
> Every time I tried booting from live cd it works ok

If it is still working unreliably booting from disk I would suspect
some sort of disc problem.  First make sure you have everything
important backed up.  Then run Disks from the Dash then in the menu
button in the top RH corner select Smart Data and see what it says
about the disk.

Colin